Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selects his tigers just as carefully. He buys them young, prefers that they be jungle-born; those born in captivity, he says, usually undergo enough rough handling to sour their dispositions. His tigers are taught through food reward, praise and tone of voice: "It's not important what you say to them. It's the tone and the way it's said. I call them by name, speak in a certain voice, and they know what I mean. They each have a different personality...
...assassins of WWD who tore into 25-year-old Tricia Nixon had better wake up. She looks charmingly attractive, beautifully wholesome, and deliciously desirable. Another girl the same age wearing the same outfit might look ten years older and disgustingly blase. WWD ate sour grapes, and their teeth are on edge...
...Marine guards reportedly used to beat hog-tied inmates, the brig population has been halved to less than 500, and a new $2,500,000 facility will open in August. Captain Sam Saxton, an assistant warden, has helped improve the guards' caliber. "When we see a guard going sour," says Saxton, "he's out of here in 72 hours...
...cooks. They concocted trick buns that squirted, fitted wings to cooked hares in order to impersonate Pegasus, and rigged dining-room ceilings to rain flowers. Every meal a production number. But the recipes themselves, Miss Pullar maintains, have been underestimated by culinary historians. She favorably compares Roman sweet-and-sour contrasts with Chinese cooking, their well-sauced meats with Creole dishes...
...three other articles and a brief poetry section. The poetry in the Journal is another example of how it hopes to play the roles of both an international forum and a workshop for young local writers. Including samples of the work of Caribbean writer Orlando Patterson, whose "Trinidad" and "Sour Roses" open the section, and "Keep the Faith" and "Melting Slush" by Emory West '72, the poetry section is a well-selected representation of the current directions of black verse...